# SUNOCO PIPELINE L.P. — Hazardous liquid — incident on 2015-07-26

**Citation:** PHMSA Report 20150303  
**Type / status:** incident / historical  
**Agency:** Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration  
**Effective:** 2015-07-26  
**Published:** 2015-08-25

Hazardous liquid incident in BEAUMONT, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings. PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

## Document text

Hazardous liquid incident in BEAUMONT, JEFFERSON County, TX. Reported cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE. Reported consequences: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries, 1 REFINED AND/OR PETROLEUM PRODUCT (NON-HVL) WHICH IS A LIQUID AT AMBIENT CONDITIONS released, $0 reported property damage. Operator-reported incident data submitted to PHMSA, generally within 30 days. Records may be supplemented or corrected and do not represent final agency causal findings.

Report number: 20150303.

Operator ID: 18718.

Reported incident date: 7/26/2015 9:00.

Location detail: 0+00

Cause detail: THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE

Cause detail: ON 7/26/2015, HEBERT CONTROL RECEIVED NOTIFICATION FROM A THIRD PARTY OF SOME DISCOLORATION ON THE GROUND BEHIND TANK 2611. OPERATIONS PERSONNEL RESPONDED AND FOUND THE MANWAY BOLTS WERE SEEPING. THE MANWAY BOLTS WERE RETORQUED AND THE SEEPAGE STOPPED. THE CONTAMINATED SOIL WAS EXCAVATED FOR DISPOSAL UNDER TCEQ GUIDELINES.

PHMSA trend classification: not significant, not serious.

PHMSA standardized cause: EQUIPMENT FAILURE — THREADED CONNECTION/COUPLING FAILURE.

PHMSA indexed costs: $5,000 reported total cost, $2,508.334 in 1984 dollars, $6,177.255 in current-year dollars.

PHMSA trend flags, standardized causes, and indexed costs are analytical fields added to operator-reported incident data. They do not represent final agency causal findings.

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/27nc-rsge/files/1d547e17-2be1-4a32-9958-a1d5a946ade9?download=true&filename=Hazardous%20Liquid%20Accident%20Data%20-%20January%202010%20to%20present.zip>
- Source ID: `phmsa-pipeline-incidents`
- SHA-256: `ad5b33527f0c53331ffbedeb58e1505b57922478f861cc8b1daace7b76a8e1e7`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T03:30:32.010Z
- Exported: 2026-08-25T06:44:11.143Z
- Document slug: `phmsa-incident-444681802809ca5e5f647466`

### Source metadata

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